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A national holiday in Lake Wobegon is always gaudy and joyful. But what is going on between Clint Bunsen and Miss Liberty?

Clint Bunsen is one of the old reliables in Lake Wobegon— the treasurer of the Lutheran church and the auto mechanic who starts your car on below-zero mornings. For six years he has run the Fourth of July parade, turning what was once a line of pickup trucks and girls pushing baby carriages that hold their cats into an event of dazzling spectacle. Blazing bands, marching units, cannons, horses, a fireworks show, and the famous Living Flag—one thousand men and women wearing red, white, or blue, standing in formation—have attracted the attention of CNN and prompted the governor to put in an appearance as well. The town is dizzy with anticipation. Until, that is, they hear of Clint’s ambition to run for Congress. They’re embarrassed for him. They know him too well—his unfortunate episodes involving vodka sours, his rocky marriage. And then there is his friendship, or whatever it is, with the twenty-four-year-old girl who dresses up as the Statue of Liberty for the parade. It’s rumored that underneath those robes she is buck naked, and that her torch contains a quart of booze.

It’s Lake Wobegon as it’s always been—good loving people who drive each other crazy..
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Skits and bits from A Prairie Home Companion celebrate the secret society of men and women who possess excellent spelling and punctuation skills.

ENGLISH MAJORS. You know who you are and here is a double-CD celebrating the secret society of those who, though they may be chauffeuring kids to swim lessons or writing Unix programs or frying cheeseburgers, still could, if need be, write a term paper on the water imagery in The Waste Land.

Includes the Six-Minute Hamlet, the Ten-Minute MacBeth,tributes to Hawthorne and Kerouac and Emily Dickinson, a Guy Noir adventure that exposes an M.F.A. scam, the Ballad of John Henry ('John Henry was an English major and poetry was his line. He sat by the window with his yellow legal pad and he wrote one sentence at a time.'), and more.

With guest appearances by Allen Ginsberg, Billy Collins, Roy Blount Jr., Robert Bly, Donald Hall, and Calvin Trillin.

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Garrison Keillor makes his long- awaited return to Lake Wobegon with this New York Times bestseller

The first new Lake Wobegon novel in seven years is a cause for celebration And Pontoon is nothing less than a spectacular return to form—replete with a bowling ball-urn, a hot-air balloon, giant duck decoys, a flying Elvis, and, most importantly, Wally’s pontoon boat. As the wedding of the decade approaches (accompanied by wheels of imported cheese and giant shrimp shish kebabs), the good-loving people of Lake Wobegon do what they do best: drive each other slightly crazy..
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"It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my home town…." Each week, more than four million radio listeners hear these words, and settle in for some old-fashioned, up-to-the-minute storytelling

During live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion, Garrison Keillor takes us to "the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve," where "the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average." These expertly crafted tales touch the heart and tickle the funnybone. Warm, poignant, often hilarious, each is a classic of live storytelling, full of gentle humor, genuine emotion, and (more often than not) surprising insights into family, community, love, faith, and hope..
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The Pretty Good Joke Book includes all of the jokes from the first nine Prairie Home Companion Joke Shows—hundreds of jokes about every subject from blondes to lawyers to chickens to relationships

From one-liners and puns to jokes about the headlines, this book covers the field. Guys walk into bars, light bulbs get changed, doors are knocked on, and insults fly in this treasury of hilarity from one of America's favorite radio shows, audience-tested and certified Pretty Good..
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The "News from Lake Wobegon" was the original collection of Garrison Keillor monologues and one of the bestselling spoken word audios of all time. Each of the seasons are available individually. Each features stories that capture the humorous, occasionally touching moments in the everyday lives of the people of Lake Wobegon. "Winter" includes "Guys on Ice", "James Lundeen's Christmas", "The Christmas Story Re-told", "New Year's from New York", and "Storm Home"..
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A thematic collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Humor includes "Skinny Dip," "Homecoming," "The Freedom of the Press," and "Vicks.".
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Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by Keillor for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their "utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with at 7 a.m."

Good Poems includes verse about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendance. It features the work of classic poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Robert Frost, as well as the work of contemporary greats such as Howard Nemerov, Charles Bukowski, Donald Hall, Billy Collins, Robert Bly, and Sharon Olds. It's a book of poems for anybody who loves poetry whether they know it or not..
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"Jokes are good for your health," Garrison Keillor says. "They reduce stress, even jokes as old as ‘Does this bus go to Duluth?’ ‘No, this bus goes beep beep.’ Or the blind man who picked up a hammer and saw. They keep on pleasing us, year after year."

And year after year, "A Prairie Home Companion" annual Joke Shows keep on drawing huge audiences of radio listeners They’re among the most popular shows in the program’s history—and they stay funny no matter how often you hear them. The puns and one-liners still make you groan. You still fall for the knock-knocks and the lightbulb jokes (how many does it take?). Somehow the bar jokes never grow old. And somehow the e-mail jokes already sound like classics.

This CD was originally part of the Plenty of Pretty Good Jokes collection, released in 2004. Now available separately, it features every morsel of hilarity from Joke Shows 7 (2/1/03) and 8 (4/17/04). Garrison’s guests include Paula Poundstone. The jokes are audience-tested and certified Not Bad..
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The first new Prairie Home Christmas collection in ten years is a warm and wonderful celebration of storytelling, music, and the holiday spirit. 

It’s Christmas in Lake Wobegon, Christmas at the old radio show, Christmas at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Christmas wherever friends and families gather to rejoice, reminisce, and share the holiday spirit. This all-new collection includes songs, sketches, sound effects, laughter, sweet nostalgia, and a monologue or two, all with a Christmas theme and all heard originally on live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion. Garrison Keillor, the show’s cast, and special guests are joined by hundreds of friends and acquaintances in a holiday gala that’s sure to become a family favorite and an annual tradition. 

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1. Wise Men Blues – Pat Donohue with the Guy’s All-Star Shoe Band (Richard Dworsky, Andy Stein, Gary Raynor, Arnie Kinsella.) 12/22/01
2. Rhubarb – Tim Russell and others 12/12/98
3. Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies – Sonos Handbell Ensemble 12/21/96
4. A Child Is Born (In Bethlehem) – Garrison Keillor and Musica Sacra 12/21/02
5. Count Your Blessings – John McDonough
6. Away in a Manger – Renée Fleming and Emanuel Ax (Fred Hersch) 12/20/03
7. The Twelve Days of Christmas – Garrison Keillor and Tom Keith 12/18/04
8. Christmas Eve Blues – Pat Donohue with the Guy’s All-Star Shoe Band (Richard Dworsky, Andy Stein, Gary Raynor, Arnie Kinsella) 12/20/03
9. Guy Noir – Garrison Keillor and cast 12/11/04
10. Christmastime (Just In Time) – Inga Swearingen 12/18/04
11. The Christmas Fire – Garrison Keillor 12/09/00
12. Silent Night – Butch Thompson 12/13/03
13. Christmas Time’s A-Comin’ – Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder (Mark Fain, bass; Jim Mills, banjo; Paul Brewster, guitar; Darrin Vincent, guitar; Clay Hess, guitar; and Bobby Hicks, fiddle.) 12/16/00
14. ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas – Garrison Keillor and Richard Dworsky 12/23/00
15. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas – Diana Krall 12/13/97
16. Santa, CEO 12/28/02
17. The Christmas Song – Sarah Jessica Parker 12/19/98
18. The Carolers at My Door - The Orianas Choir (or the Buffalo Chamber singers) 12/21/91
19. Green – 12/20/03
20. December Waltz – Pat Donohue National Steel (?) with The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band (Richard Dworsky, John Niemann, Gary Raynor, Arnie Kinsella) 12/4/04
21. In the Bleak Midwinter – Musica Sacra 12/21/02
22. Ave Maria – Renée Fleming and Emanuel Ax (Fred Hersch) 12/20/03
23. Four Christmases – Garrison Keillor; Let It Snow – April Verch, fiddle 12/22/01
24. The Christ Child’s Lullaby – The Boys of the Lough (Aly Bain (fiddle), Dave Richardson (mandolin, cittern, English concertina, and button accordion), Christy O'Leary (tin whistle, pipes, vocals), Cathal McConnell (flute, whistle, vocals), and Chris Newman (guitar)). 12/21/96
25. Silent Night - 12/21/02

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